'John Wick: Chapter 4's' Keanu Reeves And Director Chad Stahelski Discuss The Film’s Wild Stair Sequence

Interview with Director Chad Stahelski

Transcript

00:00 But I think the first time we, because we scouted and I had been to Paris a couple times,

00:03 I love Sacre Coeur, I love the steps. And I, like many of the things in the movies,

00:07 I have a stare fetish, in case you didn't get that from all the other movies, about throwing

00:10 a stunt guy. It's either car hits or stares, right? I can't figure out why. Or chopping

00:15 things off hands. I don't know why. It's very dynamic. It's a very stick motto, right? So I

00:19 think, kind of, showed up on the first day and showed up to the bottom when he runs up, checks

00:22 his watch. And that's a real honest reaction. He looks up, he's like, "Fuck." I just think he

00:28 actually realized, like, "Oh, we're gonna spend the next two weeks here running up and down."

00:31 It was pretty funny. I didn't get to do that. I had a wonderful stunt man.

00:36 But I mean, you're still going up those stairs. Oh, no, no, no. Don't get me wrong. There was a

00:41 lot. I did like 90% of it. But there's a stare fall that was professional. Sure.

00:47 But yeah, that was very intense. Yeah. Well, I mean, because I have to imagine just like going

00:53 up, where you're going that vertical, it's just you're acting, like just adding to the exertion

00:58 so much in addition to all everything. I know, but that's what makes it great.

01:01 Yeah. It's like, "Ah! Oh, my gosh."

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